Simple Machines by Tinybop & James Gilleard

James Gilleard, one of our favorite illustrators, recently teamed up with Tinybop to create illustrations for their new app Simple Machines.

The educational app explores STEM’s playful side allowing kids to “manipulate inclined planes, levers, screws, wheels and axles, pulleys, and wedges to make music, destroy a castle, lift fish tanks, bike over obstacles, send airplanes into the sky, and break up an iceberg.

Simple Machines teaches kids how simple machines do work, about input and output forces, push and pull, and the tradeoffs of using each machine. Sophisticated sound design and physics-based animations reward experimentation.”

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